Watch: Le Cliché Drop Music Video For "Segmentation Targeting Positioning"

Barcelona/New York based minimal synth, synth pop group Le Cliché (our current Band of the Month) have dropped the video for "Segmentation Targeting Positioning".

The track is part of our current playlist, and is taken from their debut full length 'Consumer Behaviour', released in December last year through Medical Records LLC. Get your copy here.

Take a look at the video below.

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LE CLICHÉ - Band of the Month February 2015

This month's BOTM on Kool Rock Radio is Barcelona/New York based minimal synth, synth pop project LE CLICHÉ.

Le Cliché is the project of Gerard Ryan, native of Limerick (Ireland), and pulls influences in all directions from 70's and 80's synthwave (in the vein of Human League, Japan, and Depeche Mode), to Ryan's background as an Associate Professor of marketing and consumer behavior. 

Le Cliché originally started as a synth project in 1984 when Ryan was a teenager, but later the project was put on hiatus in favour of a career in academia. The project was re-ignited in 2012, motivated by the appearance of new music from the 1980s that was being rediscovered and released by a host of relatively small but hugely motivated new record labels including Medical Records, and the like (and groups such as Dark Day, Mathematiques Modernes, Bal Paré, Ceramic Hello, and Experimental Products). 

Using a mix of both analog and virtual technologies, Ryan creates his own distinct sound echoing the postmodern themes of his research which culminated in the 2014 debut full length 'Consumer Behavior', released in December through Medical Records LLC.

Inspired by his doctoral research on consumer frustration when dealing with technology (specifically the internet), Ryan released the album's highly addictive track 'Waiting On the Internet", which was featured as Single Of the Week in January 14th here on kool Rock Radio.

Le Cliché will release a couple of new tracks in spring, on the forthcoming compilation from Cold Beats Records, a Barcelona based label.

Get your copy of 'Consumer Behaviour' here, and check out the video for the addictive "Waiting On The Internet" below.

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Watch: Le Cliché Reveal Music Video For "Waiting on the Internet"

Barcelona/New York based minimal synth, synth pop group Le Cliché (the project of Gerard Ryan) have revealed the video for their latest track "Waiting on the Internet".

The infectious song is part of our current playlist, and is taken from their debut full length 'Consumer Behaviour', released in December last year through Medical Records LLC. Get your copy here.

Take a look at the video below.

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Watch: Le Cliché Release Music Video For New Track "Ballet"

Barcelona/New York based minimal synth, synth pop group Le Cliché have released the video for their new infectious track "Ballet".

The song is part of our current playlist. The band will release their forthcoming debut album 'Consumer Behaviour', in December through Medical Records LLC.

The album consists of 11 songs influenced largely by European synth pop of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s (The Human League, John Foxx, OMD, early Depeche Mode, Japan, Gary Numan, Propaganda and Kraftwerk.). More recent influences include the first album by Miss Kittin & the Hacker, Tiga, Benny Benassi, Erlend Øye and Ladytron. The music might be best described as minimal synth, synth pop, postmodernist, cold assembly line with neo consumerist themes, based on the use of synth sequences and virtual voices. Pre-order your copy here.

Take a look at the video below.

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